Hi everyone,
Turning to the people in this group, I would like to ask what options are there to move away from free marketing services when sending newsletters to the community? Currently we’re on mailchimp, but what would it take to set up a mailing list onto our server and better protect the privacy of individual Edgeryders? After our last email blast I got this feedback, in all good intentions, and i think this person has a point:
"all your links are converted to these spying links like:
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=2426561089e1f5ab32da252cd&id=9871d9d336&e=35bff7b29c
which point probably to some http://edgryders.eu url. you can see above,
there’s a ?u=<number> - that actually tracks each recipient distinctly.
instead use your own mailserver or that of some friendly and trusted local
organisation. donate some money to the local hackerspace or something, and
build trust and friendship with them. maybe some of the edgeryders have spare
capacities themselves.
if you want to use the internet for doing positive change, you cannot expose
your network like that to the world. if you ever become successful -
threatening to corruption, incompetence, ignorance and malice, you will have
powerful adversaries who will gladly use your lack of operational security
this against you.
on a side-note, from a european privacy regulation point of view, i could ask
you to inform me about your data handling practices regarding my private data.
and as such your disclosure of my email address to a foreign 3rd party without
my explicit consent is a violation of privacy laws in all eu countries. i
could ask you to delete this data, and you would not be able to comply."